Windshield-shade



A. L. NASH. WINDSHIELD SHADE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1919.

- Patented June 1,1920.

a resident of East Spencer, county UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARCHIE L. NASH, OF EAST SPENCER, NORTH CAROLINA.

WINDSHIELD-SHADE.

Application filed May 24,

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ARCHIE L. NASH, a citizen of the United States of America, an?

0 Rowan, and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Windshield-Shades, of which the following is a full and clear specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple shade attachment for glass windshields which shall be adapted not only for attachment to any motor vehicle windshield, but also shall be adapted for ready adjustment back and forth across the upper section of the windshield, to the end that it may be nicely positioned with reference to the chauffeur so that it will be in the line of vision between his eyes and the point in the roadway where the glare of an oppositelygoing car is likely to appear, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a passenger automobile showing my device applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the upper section of a windshield showing my. device attached thereto; 7

Fig. 3 is a view partly in section and partly in side elevation of my device detached;

Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are views of details hereinafter described.

Referring to the drawing by referencecharacters, a designates a shade which is a comparatively narrow piece of opaque fabric wound at its upper end upon a roller 6, this roller being actuated by an inclosed coil-spring o in a direction to normally wind-up the shade on the roller. Inset into each of the hollowends of the roller is a cup 03, and extending into each of these cups is a knob e formed on a bracket 7, the circular knobs 6 serving as journals for the roller. The brackets f are carried by a bar 9, which bar is adapted to be suspended from the upper edge of the windshield section by means of a spring-hook h which engages over the top bar of the windshield so as to be slidable therealong to enable the shade Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1920. 1919. Serial No. 299,444.

to be set at any point across the windshield section.

The depending end of the shade is affixed to a sheet-metal strip 11 which, at the center of its lower edge, is provided with av ring j and which also is provided with a rearwardly-extendingthumb-piece 7c. When the shield is pulled down, the ring j is engaged into a hook Z carried by a clip m which embraces the lower edge of the windshield section and is anchored thereon by a set-screw n, a suitable soft packing material 0 being provided in the clip to, prevent the clamping action from breaking the glass. This clip may be adjusted to any 'point along the lower edge of the glass section.

The coil-spring c surrounds a rod p whose squared ends. g'fit in squared holesin the bracket bosses 6, thereby preventingl this rod l from turning. This rod supports t throughout the length thereof. g

It will be observed that the shade strip e spring may be adjusted to any desirable point I along the windshield sectionby simply sliding clamp it along the top-bar of the section and by setting the clamp m at a corresponding point along the lower ed e of the section. When the shade is not m use, itwill be released from the hook it and permitted to normally roll up. on the cylinder 12,-.

should it be desired to remove the shade.

entirely from the section, this may be done; bydsimply springing the clamp it off the topro It will be observed that a'feature of im; portance lies in so suspending the roller upon the top-bar of the windshield that the back-bar g of the shade-roller will rest against the inner face of the glass section, thus furnishing a'substantial support for the shade-roller.

The nature and scope of the invention having been thus indicated and its preferred embodiment having been specifically described, what is claimed as new is: 4

' In a glare-shade for Windshields, a shad roller carrying a device for-slidingly moungting. it on the top-bar of the wind-shield, a

shade member adapted to wind upon the roller, and means for detachably and adjustably connecting the lower end of the by the lower end of the shade member shade to the lower edge of the windshield, adapted to be detachably connected to said 10 so that the shade member may be securely clamp, whereby the shade member may be fastened at both ends at any point across the rolled up without disconnecting the clamp windshield, said means consisting of a from the windshield.

clamp embracing the lower edge of the In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my windshield and adapted to be secured at any signature.

point along the same, and a hook carried ARCHIE L. NASH. 

